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From: "Kay Keating" <>
Subject: [Clooz] Datebases
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 16:06:44 -0500


Hello List Members,

I have just returned from Salt Lake City with several hundred more digital
photographs of microfilm records to add to the hundreds that I already have.
In addition to photographing records as I am doing, the LDS FHL has added a
new piece of copy equipment. You can now copy from a microfilm directly
onto a CD. The only cost is a $1.75 fee for the special CD disk which holds
dozens of images as opposed to $.23 per image on a regular microfilm copy
machine.

I watched this being done by a friend, and can see that it introduces
another whole dimension in collecting and managing records. She copied
about 60 pages of a church records book in a half hour, and the CD is not
full yet. You are limited to one half hour session per day. As long as you
don't 'close' the CD, you can keep adding to it in later sessions. You are
not supposed to copy an entire roll of film, but you can sure copy a lot
without violating that rule.

While in SLC, I purchased the video for "Clooz" and found it very helpful.
Ms. Kertan's remarks in the video about creating different databases set me
to thinking about digital copies of records. Because the cost of
photographing a record is essentially zero, I am coping many more records
than I might otherwise if I had to pay $.23. Consequently, my collection
has become unmanageable.

I am researching a dozen or so surnames in about a half dozen villages in
Pfalz, Bayern, Germany. Some villages will have many rolls of films to
cover their history from the 1500s up to the 1900s; others will have only
two or three rolls. And there are some rolls that overlap where there are
books of more than one village's records on a single roll of film. Another
type of overlap occurs when someone from one village stands as a witness or
sponsor for someone in another village.

Rather than create one database for German Records (which is what I have
already started), should I have a database for each of the six villages or
perhaps a database for each roll of microfilm? Another type of overlap
occurs when someone from one village stands as a witness or sponsor for
someone in another village.

Has anyone had any experience with this situation or given any thought to
it? I'm leaning towards creating a database for each village, but I'm open
to any suggestions to help manage this collection a bit better.

Kay Keating
Bethesda, Maryland

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